Chancellor Olaf Scholz was greeted by furious farmers when he opened a new high-speed train plant in Cottbus in eastern Germany on Thursday, as meetings were set in parliament to address the outrage in the agricultural sector. The protesters oppose the government’s plans to phase out diesel fuel subsidies for farmers in order to help fill a gaping hole in the federal budget. Scholz’s three-way coalition triggered a storm of protest from farmers that hasn’t stopped even with some government concessions. A week of action, involving tractors blocking some entrance and exit ramps to motorways as w…